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Need to restore AIX file --- BUT --- no longer have AIX hardware

Here's the scoop. We eliminated AIX at our company but we have some AIX backups that may at some point in time need to be restored. At the time of decom we decided that in the event of restore request we would use an external company to provide us with AIX hardware.

Guess what... there is a restore request for AIX data. We don't have the HW and the business doesn't want to pay to get some.

Is there any way to recover AIX data that is still active in TSM to a non-AIX platform?

Here's the scoop. We eliminated AIX at our company but we have some AIX backups that may at some point in time need to be restored. At the time of decom we decided that in the event of restore request we would use an external company to provide us with AIX hardware.

Guess what... there is a restore request for AIX data. We don't have the HW and the business doesn't want to pay to get some.

Is there any way to recover AIX data that is still active in TSM to a non-AIX platform?

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Straight answer - NO

BUT - you can try restoring to a Linux box and see if you can make TSM restore the data. I believe the answer is 'it will not'. I wanted to try this for some time now but never got to it. I just want to prove if it can or cannot be done.

that test is not good enough I think
Normally /var/adm/wtmp is a file on AIX and not a directory

I just restored a Linux backup to an AIX system. That worked fine.
Also restored an AIX backup to a Linux, but that file does not seem to really restore. I don't see an error during the restore but the file is not created on the linux filesystem.